Ring box



g- 1952' A; MAS], JR., ETAL 2,603,296

RING BOX Filed Jan. 6, 1951 INVENTORfJ. J11 a ban I Ms! 1]:

ATTORNEYS.

Patented Aug. 26, 1952 RING BOX Anthony Masi, Jr., and Nicholas Barbieri, Providence, R. I., assignors to Uncas Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Rhode Island Appl ation a uary 6, 1951, Serial No. 204,741

4 Claims. (01. 206-76) This invention relates to improvements in a ring box, particularly a ring holder therefor.

A ring holder which is usually provided for in ring boxes is made to receive but a single sized ring. When the ring holder is made of sheet material, a base body is formed for supporting a padding which is covered by a fabric.

The object of this invention is to provide a ring holder made of a single piece of sheet material and so constructed that it may be used for holding rings of different sizes.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of con struction, as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ring box embodying our invention;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the ring holder per se in a partially folded condition;

Figure 3 is a plan view of a blank shown on a reduced scale for forming the ring holder shown in Figure 2; and

Figure 4 is a sectional view of a piece of material employed for making the blank shown in Figure 3.

First referring to Figures 3 and 4, l designates a ring holder blank made of sheet material, preferably a cardboard stock, coated on its obverse side with a, flock material l3 so as to provide a ring holder having the general appearance and some of the functional qualities as if covered with a cloth fabric. The blank ID is made of a form so as to provide a body l2 having end flaps l4 and spaced side flaps [5 at each side edge thereof. The flaps [5 are spaced at the edge of the body a distance so that the body portion I1 therebel9, as shown in Figure 2. The recess 19 extends laterally across the body. The side walls 20 thereof are resilient and spaced from each other a distance slightly less than the width of the shank of the smallest ring to be received in the said recess. The material from which the blank is made is sufficiently stifi so that when the same is made into the ring holder form 2|, shown in Figure 2, it will be self-sustained. This holder 2| is received within a box 22 which is of an inner dimension to snugly receive the holder therein.

Thus, we provide a ring box in which the holder is made to receive any of various sized rings and to snugly hold these within the said recess I9.

It may now be apparent that by making the ring holder of a single piece of material we reduce considerably the cost of manufacture and we also are able to use but a single sized holder for all sized rings, thereby reducing considerably the inventory of these ring boxes.

We claim:

1. A ring holder made of a single piece of resilient relatively stiff sheet material comprising a body having generally right angularly extending equally spaced side flaps at each side edge thereof and end flaps and with a portion of said body between said side flaps being folded upon itself in a generally centrally disposed U-shaped fold across the full width of said body and parallel to said end flaps, said fold extending to a depth substantially equal to the length of said flaps providing in said folded portion a ring-receiving recess with yieldable resilient walls for snugly holding said ring therein, and an open box of a size to receive and frictionally hold the said flaps in the said right angularly extending position.

2. A ring holder as set forth in claim 1 wherein one side of said body is coated with a flock material.

3. A ring holder as set forth in claim 1 wherein said body is made of cardboard stock coated with a flock material.

l. A blank adapted to be folded to form a ring holder comprising a single piece of resilient relatively stiff sheet material cut so as to provide a body with end flaps and equally spaced side flaps on each side thereof, said flaps being adapted to be folded to extend generally right angularly to said body with said side flaps on each side of said body being spaced from each other a distance greater than the combined width thereof, providing a central body portion extending between said side flaps of a length greater than twice the length of said side flaps and adapted to be centrally folded laterally thereof between said side flaps into general U-shape to provide a ringreceiving recess between the said folded portions of said body.

ANTHONY MASI, JR. NICHOLAS BARBIERI.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,053,711 Crankshaw Feb. 18, 1913 1,799,364 Green Apr. '7, 1931 

